Job 6:9
That God would please—and bruise me, || Loose His hand and cut me off!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!
In Context
8O that my request may come, || That God may grant my hope!
Cross References
1 Kings 19:4and he himself has gone a day’s journey into the wilderness, and comes and sits under a certain broom tree, and desires his soul to die, and says, “Enough, now, O YHWH, take my soul, for I [am] not better than my fathers.”
Job 3:21Who are waiting for death, and it is not, || And they seek it above hid treasures.
Job 10:1“My soul has been weary of my life, I leave off my talking to myself, I speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 19:21Pity me, pity me, you my friends, || For the hand of God has struck against me.
Isaiah 48:10Behold, I have refined you, and not with silver, || I have chosen you in a furnace of affliction.
Jonah 4:8And it comes to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appoints a cutting east wind, and the sun strikes on the head of Jonah, and he wraps himself up, and asks for his soul to die, and says, “Better [is] my death than my life.”
Matthew Henry on Job 6:9-14
8 Oh that I might have my request; and that God would grant me the thing that I long for! 9 Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off! 10 Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One. 11 What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? 12 Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? 13 Is not my help in me?… Read the whole commentary →